Joe Biden To Meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
By Matt Spetalnick SHANNON, Ireland, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden will hold talks with Israeli leaders during a visit to the Jewish state as head of a U.S. delegation to former Prime...
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Disaster in Haiti - Four Years On
The world looked on in horror as a massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on 12 January 2010. More than 200,000 people were killed in the capital alone, along with countless thousands of...
View ArticlePresident Obama Needs to Avoid False Choices in the Middle East
The United States is increasingly uninterested in the Middle East as the region becomes polarized and paralyzed by old and new forces. Contrasted binary labels such as rulers and Islamists, war and...
View ArticleVenezuela May Extend Price Controls To Pet Food
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's socialist revolution is going to the dogs — literally. President Nicolas Maduro on Sunday ordered aides to study extending price caps to dog and cat food as part...
View ArticleCameroon's Gay 'Prisoner Of Conscience' Dies
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) — A gay man in Cameroon who was jailed for sending a text message to another man saying "I'm very much in love with you," and who was later declared a prisoner of conscience by...
View ArticleIs Banksy Headed To Russia Just In Time For The Olympics?
Incognito street artist Banksy is rumored to be making his next “appearance” in Russia’s capital. Word of the visit spread on Jan. 10 after the Russian government’s radio broadcasting service Voice of...
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Boston Firefighter Rescues Siberian Husky From Ice-Covered Bay (PHOTOS)
Firefighters man, they just have a knack for being in the right place at the right time. Sylvie, a 13-year-old Siberian husky, was playing with her owner and accidentally ran across a patch of ice...
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Gaza Militants Fire Rockets Near Sharon's Burial Place, Official Says
Gaza militants fired two rockets that hit an area close to the ranch where former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon was laid to rest on Monday, a military spokeswoman said.The Israeli military...
View ArticleCristiano Ronaldo Wins FIFA Ballon D'Or 2013 And Gets Emotional During...
It wasn't hard to tell how much winning the FIFA Ballon d'Or award meant to Cristiano Ronaldo. Upon being named the world's most outstanding soccer player of 2013, Ronaldo teared up during an emotional...
View ArticleMany Worldwide Don't Have Access To Clean Water
The chemical that spilled into a major West Virginia river last week forced about 300,000 people in Charleston and surrounding areas not to use their tap water over several days for drinking, cooking,...
View ArticleIran's Fars News Touts NSA Alien Conspiracies
Mining conspiracy-theory-peddling websites based in the United States, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency published a series of bizarre claims regarding Edward Snowden's NSA leaks on Sunday. A first...
View ArticleWatch As Mitt Romney Lets Loose At A Conference And Does A Hoedown Onstage
The normally reserved former Massachusetts governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney hopped onstage for a quick dance lesson with performer Alex Boyé at a conference for young Mormons last...
View ArticleIt's Time For a 'New Deal' on Education for Syrian Refugee Children
You don't have to tell Souriya Maliki, a 14-year-old Syrian refugee from southern Damascus, about the value of education. Her parents took her out of school two years ago after a classmate was killed...
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That No Pants Metro Ride? It's Not Just A New York Thing (PHOTOS)
New York wasn't the lone city to experience an inundation of underdressed straphangers on Sunday. The taking-off-your-pants phenomenon has taken off across the globe, with train passengers from London...
View ArticleAnother New Year -- And One More Chance to Choose the World We Want
The coming year is a crucial one for humanity, the future and the planet. Throughout 2014, in a series of global and regional deliberations, representatives from all member states of the United Nations...
View ArticleImelda Marcos Aide Gets Prison In New York Art Scheme
NEW YORK (AP) — A former aide to ex-Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos was sentenced Monday to two to six years in prison after being convicted of scheming to sell a $32 million Claude Monet painting...
View ArticleChina Needs to Decide What It Wants To Be
For decades the Chinese government has deployed both soft and hard power to promote China's influence and status, while at the same time discouraging interference in Chinese affairs. China's foreign...
View ArticleThe Most Expensive Cities In The World, According To Expatistan (PHOTOS)
We've all heard the story-worthy dream before -- ditch the small, quaint town for the big, bustling city and live the glamorous life. But when monthly rent costs you $4,250 and public transportation...
View ArticleChina Huffs and Puffs Some More, to Uncertain Effect
The latest aggressive Chinese move in the Western Pacific? Decreeing that all fishing vessels must have Chinese permission to operate in the South China Sea, virtually all of which it claims as its...
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Northern Ireland Abuse Inquiry: Boys 'Battered Stupid' By Nuns
Nuns used to batter boys stupid during daily abuse at a children's home in Londonderry, one victim has claimed. John Heaney, 55, was caned on the feet by members of the order of the Sisters of Nazareth...
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